https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/opinion/editorials/virginia-election-northam-gillespie-democrats.html
The New York Times declared itself in “the center” while failing to see the hypocrisy of its own attack on President Trump for “the politics of racial division.”
In an opinion piece on Tuesday following the election of Democrat Ralph Northam, the Virginia governor, the Times editorial board called the victory a “stinging and welcome rebuke to President Trump and white nationalism.”
Titled, “Virginia Rejects Your Hateful Politics, Mr. Trump,” the piece was tweeted out by the Times with the clear sub-headline, “Turns out the center can hold, after all.”
Ralph Northam’s win in Virginia is doubly important, as a triumph over the politics of racial division https://t.co/YUsjc0A4In
— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) November 8, 2017
Well there is certainly no racial division in the all white crowd in your picture.
— John Cannon (@JohnJcannon) November 8, 2017
Calling Northam’s Republican rival, Ed Gillespie, “an establishment operative,” the editors leveled multiple insults and anything-but-center criticisms of Trump and his supporters.
The Times accused Gillespie of taking up “race-baiting” in the campaign and slammed Trump for calling Northam “weak on crime, weak on our GREAT VETS.”
“Mr. Gillespie’s choice to lay his principles on the altar of Trumpism made Mr. Northam’s win doubly important,” the editors declared, “as a triumph over the politics of racial division, and as a lesson for other Republicans tempted to adopt Mr. Trump’s vile tactics as their own.”
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“Vile tactics,” “racial division” and “hateful politics” sound like language that is anything but “center.”
Twitter users called out the Times for its hypocritical finger-pointing.
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His win was based on racial division.
— cobraJack (@krl1992_ERAU) November 8, 2017
Stop with the #fakenews. Please liberals, stop. Virginia is actually a vast population of WHITE Washington insiders – old Republicans who hate Trump because he is now in charge on their ticket and is actually trying to fix the country they helped destroy.
— Johnjohn (@renfieldroad) November 8, 2017
The Marxist media in full Democrat support mode! No such hyperbole when Dems lost 4 seats in a row! Media propaganda!
— Jim Donohue (@jimdonohue13) November 8, 2017
Northam’s win was based on a racist claim that Republicans want to run down immigrant children. Expect other Democrats to replicate this hate. https://t.co/MznHmXUhoT
— Ryan Drexel Rawson (@drexrawson) November 8, 2017
Total bull
— Cave Dreams Lighting (@thecavelighter) November 8, 2017
Virginia Rejects Your Hateful Politics, Mr. Trump https://t.co/PzjNR2IH2I – Oh screw you NYT. No one more hateful than his predecessor Obama.
— Pat C in Central FL (@BeachCity55) November 8, 2017
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